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[Jacob Wolki @JakeWolki]

The whole "Albo owns 47% of my business" meme was a beautiful thing to watch. There were plenty of reply guys in the comments on all business pages being nitpickers, arguing semantics and displaying straight contempt for the entrepreneurs in our society, but they completely missed the point.

Yeah, we all know "Albo doesn't literally own 47% of our business"

That'd be absurd because then the Gov would actually share downside risk.

Yeah, we know the tax rate is progressive.
We know that the CGT discount only applies when your business is sold.

It's not an outrage at this singular specific line item in the budget.

It's "The straw that broke the camel's back", and the Overton Window is shifting.
People are willing to talk about the trials and tribulations of running a business publicly, and no longer care about looking weak, desperate or like a failure.
That’s a far bigger cultural shift than you may realise.

Business isn't meant to be easy.
Business is a battlefield, the best offerings will win.
There isn't a divine benevolence surrounding business owners meaning that we should guarantee them success, and that’s not what business owners are asking for.

People who start a business know the risks. They know the data. They see the cafes close, the shops shut up and the brands disappear. But being entrepreneurial is less a vocation and more a calling and you have to enter the marketplace - the battlefield - to see what you’re made of. To harden your steel.

But the battlefield isn’t just your idea versus marketplace sentiment. The battlefield is an unnatural, adulterated landscape riddled with compliance, liability, inflation, bad fiscal policy - the list goes on. Time, stress and costs surrounding all sides of business are slowly compounding. Frogs in a pot, slowly boiling.

All the stuff that we need and want will be available - until it isn’t. It will just no longer come from hardworking Aussie families.
Multi-national zombie corporations will be there to service us.

You know, those big businesses that can lobby, comply, pay the fines and keep growing while offshoring profits through an Irish business registration or some other fancy loophole that is conveniently left open.

China and other nations who couldn’t care less about their emissions will continue to feed us our phones, cars and everything in between while we crush any and all domestic production to chase Nyet Zero, to virtue signal that we have shaved our 1% global emissions down to whatever.

Small business is increasingly "no man's land", a very hostile curated environment.

"Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is now a cultural joke rather than fatherly advice to “work hard and have a go”.

And still, trying to create and produce is a damn more impressive and useful vocation than most, and the overlord class is squeezing the energetic and the entrepreneurial close to the point where they can no longer sell themselves the pipe dreams of

"Next year will be better"
"Next budget will be better"
“Next product will be better"
“Inflation will slow down”
"I'm my own boss"
"I have freedom because I ‘work for myself’ “
“I’m building equity”

Don't mistake the signal for the noise.

[Tony Edward (Thinking Crypto Podcast) @thinkingcrypto]

10 Truths About You

1) You stole customer funds
2) You are a scammer
3) You are trying to kiss Trump's ass for a pardon
4) You deserve to be in jail and should not get any pardons
5) You are a scammer
6) You are a scammer
7) You are a scammer
8) You are a scammer
9) You are a scammer
10) You are a scammer

[Vijay Boyapati @real_vijay]

No pardon for SBF. Retweet if you agree.

[calle @callebtc]

you guys are so cooked

[Heatbit @heatbit_com]

Heatbit plushies?!

21 retweets and we'll make some...

[Detroit Lions @Lions]

🚨 It's #ProBowlVote double count day 🚨

RT for your chance to win this autographed @BrianBB_1 jersey.

Each RT = 2 votes‼️

[AltYellowstoneNatPar @AltYelloNatPark]

The censorship algorithm has reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife advocacy group ?

You can help by retweeting, liking and following. If we're going to preserve what few wild places remain, we need you to get involved.

[Ai Business Journal @ArchieIntel]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The Senator who said “Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador," was just indicted on 18 counts for obstruction of justice.

Federal Prosecutors seized $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in hidden cash from his home.

Quelle dommage…

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

We must prevent adoption of a central bank digital currency but then also take the next step of denationalizing money. Bitcoin is the most promising money innovation in our lifetime. We need a wall of separation between money and state. Click here to help: https://t.co/osYXM2KgP5

[Brandon Walker @BFW]

@Return_Of_RB Yeah they usually don’t pursue charges against Bama.

[The Bitcoin Conference @TheBitcoinConf]

RT if you trust #Bitcoin more than central banks

[CryptoJobsList @CryptoJobsList]

Looking for a job? Reply below, follow and retweet.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Decentralize money.
End the Fed.
Declare your independence.

[@jason @Jason]

If you care deeply @tim_cook, perhaps you could start by having @apple stop supporting authoritarians with your devices?

Or just stop selling iPhones in Russia until they leave Ukraine? https://t.co/UEerQkSTmO

[Dan Held @danheld]

Total fines paid by banks in the last 10 years:

$334,299,095,239

But I thought only #Bitcoin was used by criminals?🤔

[Spencer Schiff @SpencerKSchiff]

@nayibbukele You should buy more bitcoin every time my dad replies. That’s what I like to do.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

The eclectic group of @joerogan guests who were pulled from Spotify just shows you this censorship shit isn’t about left or right. It’s about an authoritarian push for complete control over speech. They hate Rogan bc he’s not controlled by corporate media.

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

6 Super Bowls and idiots like this complaining they didn’t get mentioned in an instagram post. PIGEON.

[Rijndael @rot13maxi]

@chrislarsensf > simply take a snapshot of the current hash rate of existing miners and then reward miners on a pro-rata hash power basis through 2140.

Tell me you don’t understand bitcoin without telling me you don’t understand bitcoin

[Rene Pickhardt @renepickhardt]

It's crazy for me to see that someone like @LukeDashjr has no permanent funding...

I know from my own experience how hard it is to stay independent. Hope Luke will find the support he needs!